Is Charlie Sheen Outsmarting us all?
Look, I’m not the first to say it, so I’ll just put this observation out there for your consideration and commentary. People in LA want to be noticed; they want to be the center of attention. And many don’t care how they get your attention just as long as they have it.
Charlie Sheen has ours now. He’s all over the tabloids, in print, pixel and video. When I got to the gym, I hear people talking to him. When I go out to eat, even in restaurants outside LA, I hear people talking about him. Certainly, he seems like he’s off his rocker. But, is he? Right now, everyone is paying attention to him. He’s being noticed. He has become the number one celebrity this week.
(A google search for “Charlie Sheen” (in quotation marks) results in over 500 million hits.)
To Hollywood celebrities, it used to matter what people thought of them. Now it only seems to matter that people think about then. And people are sure thinking about Charlie.
NB: Moments after posting this, I decided to modify (albeit slightly) the title.
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By L.A. standards …he’s more sane than most.
If he’s cray-cray, then they might as well lock up half of the city.
Frankly, I’m getting a kick out of his inner dialogues.
Comment by The Ugly American — March 5, 2011 @ 2:55 am - March 5, 2011
Frankly, ‘my dear’, I don’t give a damn about Charlie Sheen..
Comment by benj — March 5, 2011 @ 6:18 am - March 5, 2011
Breads and Circuses. More people know Charlie Sheen is a whackjob than know Obama is spending our country into oblivion, or that an Islamic terrorist murdered two American warfighters in Germany, or that the Obama Administration has been running guns into Mexico to bolster its claim that Mexico’s violence is the fault of the Second Amendment.
Comment by V the K — March 5, 2011 @ 11:30 am - March 5, 2011
I didn’t realize that public suicide and or life implosion counted as “outsmarting”. The fact that he’s being talked about does not detract from the facts that he lost his job, had his kids removed, and is being mocked world wide. He should be pitied not praised
Comment by Tim — March 5, 2011 @ 12:05 pm - March 5, 2011
He probably thinks he’s outsmarting us all but he’s simply a typical cocaine addict who all seem to mistake a speed high for genius.
Comment by Redneck Fag — March 5, 2011 @ 12:53 pm - March 5, 2011
He should be institutionalized.
And when he is “cured” I will offer Christian pity on his soul.
For any trolls around, I know you have taken pity on the soul of Rush Limbaugh. Good on you for that.
Selective pity, however is a staple of moral relativism and the elites who judge us: one and all.
Comment by Heliotrope — March 5, 2011 @ 12:58 pm - March 5, 2011
Seems like Mr. Sheen is operating by the old Hollywood standby: there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Like Michael Jackson in his later years or Britney Spears’ faux British accent for a while, it just screams “look at me, lookit, lookit, lookit!” He’s playing us for suckers and is laughing all the way to the bank.
Comment by Jim Michaud — March 5, 2011 @ 2:02 pm - March 5, 2011
Or perhaps, Jim, he’s going back even further…
“The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” -Oscar Wilde
Comment by Draybee — March 5, 2011 @ 3:50 pm - March 5, 2011
There may be someting good in being talked about, but there’s things you don’t want to have said about you in a town like Hollywood.
“Not reliable.”
“Bad insurance risk.”
“Difficult to deal with.”
“Likes to badmouth the folks who hire him and sign his checks, eh?”
At the end of the day there’s nothing Charlie Sheen can bring to a production that a dozen kids with fresh SAG cards can’t- only on time, in one take, with a good attitude, and at a fraction of the salary. He wouldn’t be the first trainwreck to think that he wasn’t replaceable and he won’t be the last… and every one of them wrong.
Comment by DaveP. — March 5, 2011 @ 3:56 pm - March 5, 2011
maybe poor Charlie has a case of untreated syphilis and is going mad. . .
Comment by rusty — March 5, 2011 @ 4:21 pm - March 5, 2011
No, I think he’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown due to his drug abuse & his demons.
Comment by Sebastian Shaw — March 5, 2011 @ 4:42 pm - March 5, 2011
Is it good PR or a good distraction for the media? When you can’t explain how collective bargaining “rights” help educate children or how the collectivism of Obamarail helps anybody, “Oh look! There’s Charlie Sheen!!”
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 5, 2011 @ 6:27 pm - March 5, 2011
Well, I love 2,5 men but the last season sucked so I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole thing was staged to close it down with a bang to assure good DVD sales.
Comment by papamishka — March 6, 2011 @ 5:11 am - March 6, 2011
#13 I’ve kinda liked the few episodes that I’ve seen, but not enough to go out of my way to watch it. I think it started out as a lunch money machine for Jon Cryer more than anything else.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — March 6, 2011 @ 6:34 am - March 6, 2011
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“Dah, …Winning!!”
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — March 6, 2011 @ 7:08 pm - March 6, 2011
My take on the whole Sheen family:
“Who the fcuk cares??”
And I am unanimous in that opinion. (H/T “Are You Being Served?”)
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 6, 2011 @ 11:23 pm - March 6, 2011
Um…
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13167959
Comment by V the K — March 8, 2011 @ 8:20 am - March 8, 2011
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